The Clyde A. Lamb Awards are presented annually to ten male and ten female student-athletes from each of the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) institutions.

Criteria for the award includes at least two years participation in an OAC-sponsored sport, senior status, a minimum grade point average of 3.00 and sportsmanlike conduct in a manner that has brought credit to the student-athlete and his or her institution.

The award was founded in 1985 and is named in honor of Clyde A. Lamb. Lamb organized the department of health and physical education at Ohio Northern University in 1929, and served as a coach, department chairman and athletics director at ONU from 1929-64. He continued to teach full-time until his death in 1969.

Lamb, who received his bachelor’s degree from Coe College in 1923 and a master’s degree from Columbia University in 1929, coached numerous sports at Ohio Northern during his tenure. In 1959, he was elected to the NAIA Helms Hall of Fame. He was honored as Ada’s Distinguished Citizen in 1956 and was inducted into Ohio Northern’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 1969.

Clyde Lamb Honorees

2025 | Winners | Banquet Program

2024 | Winners | Banquet Program

2023 | Winners | Banquet Program

2022 | Winners | Banquet Program

2021 | Winners | Banquet Program

2020 | Winners | Banquet Program

2019 | Winners | Banquet Program

2018 | Winners | Banquet Program

2017 | Winners | Banquet Program

2016 | Winners | Banquet Program

2015 | Winners | Banquet Program

2014 | Winners | Banquet Program

2013 | Winners | Banquet Program

2012 | Winners | Banquet Program

2011 | Winners/Banquet Program

All-Time Honorees | 1985-2024 | 2025-Pres.